A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Ratings13
Average rating3.4
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Ratings13
Average rating3.4
"Eimear McBride's acclaimed debut tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma. Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and spent the next nine years trying to have it published"--
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I had to force myself to finish this book. The way it's written made it hard to understand or enjoy this book.
This book was just unlike anything I've read before - writing style, content... all of it.
It definitely took me some time to get my head around the writing style at the start, but it worked. It just works. Somehow. My unconscious brain seemed to do half the work whilst reading it.
It's also a very emotional book... I felt like I was in the narrators head, going through what she was going through, which was disturbing at best.
I'm glad I read it, I think it'll stay with me for a long time.
This book and I just didn't get along well. I can see why others would get something out of it, but it is a difficult read. I felt like I couldn't fully comprehend the story and the message due to my struggle with the writing and it didn't feel fair to halfheartedly finish this only to give it a poor rating because it was a bad fit. And, honestly, some of the content is harrowing and I'm really just not in a good place to push myself through that as well.
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